Tons of thanks to all the entrants for your part in entertaining this year's crowd.Many people told me they enjoyed the contest entries, and all that really needsto pass on up to the competitors.Hope to see you again next year!

This year, I am also showing which entries received 2nd places in the categories as well.

Several prizes were awarded to AMV creators who were present at the con;the rest of the winners will be contacted privately for mailing details and theywill receive an anime DVD as the prize and a convention swag-bag to boot!

Again, we all had a great time, and I thank all who entered and hope you all KEEP sending stuff for 2011, too!!!1one

Congratulations to all the winners~!lolwut? My video got Best in Show again?

Like, is that OKAY?!?

(No really: warm congratulations to you; Best of Show was also shown at Closing Ceremonies and the audience loved it...)

Thank you very much. :3 It's just a big shock; I won Best Comedy and Best in Show with Ginta at Sakura Con, and I never expected to get the same acolades again at another con. I'm glad that it was (once again) such a big hit with the audience.

Ooh! Do you happen to know where I can find Springtime? The org doesn't have that either

This competitor only sent the AMV to me privately; I will contact him privately and see if he is 'cool' with me sharing the d/l link here.If he says 'No,' then we will have to respect his wish and move on...

Congratulations to all the winners~!lolwut? My video got Best in Show again?

Like, is that OKAY?!?

(No really: warm congratulations to you; Best of Show was also shown at Closing Ceremonies and the audience loved it...)

Thank you very much. :3 It's just a big shock; I won Best Comedy and Best in Show with Ginta at Sakura Con, and I never expected to get the same acolades again at another con. I'm glad that it was (once again) such a big hit with the audience.

This might surprise you Samcyxk but one of the members who saw it was a Twilight fan and he laugh alot and love it.

Congratulations to all the winners~!lolwut? My video got Best in Show again?

Like, is that OKAY?!?

(No really: warm congratulations to you; Best of Show was also shown at Closing Ceremonies and the audience loved it...)

Thank you very much. :3 It's just a big shock; I won Best Comedy and Best in Show with Ginta at Sakura Con, and I never expected to get the same acolades again at another con. I'm glad that it was (once again) such a big hit with the audience.

This might surprise you Samcyxk but one of the members who saw it was a Twilight fan and he laugh alot and love it.

It doesn't surprise me, and yet it does. I've had Twilight fans tell me that they adored the video before, but it always amazes me.

That person was really me and I laugh very hard are you planning to make more like that with new moon and eclipse?

Haha! Well, probably not. For one, I don't think the reviews for New Moon and Eclipse are as good as the first one. Second, I don't wanna make one that's not as good as Ginta Reviews, and have people compare them badly. Third, I have so many more ideas I wanna complete

Ok and I hope we could see a amv based off Scott Pilgrim vs The World trailer.

I'll definitely keep that in mind, but like I said, so many AMV ideas, so little time. Working on videos for Sakura Con and Kumoricon 2011, and already have my ideas for Sakura Con 2012. It'll hafta wait in line XD

I have, I've seen the trailer before. And that's all I remember from it. Still, it'd be funny to have Tamaki be Scott and Haruhi be the girl he's after. Have people like Hikaru, Kasanoda, Kyoya, and the girl she accidentally kisses as exes.

I have, I've seen the trailer before. And that's all I remember from it. Still, it'd be funny to have Tamaki be Scott and Haruhi be the girl he's after. Have people like Hikaru, Kasanoda, Kyoya, and the girl she accidentally kisses as exes.

A question for Guy - from what I'm reading and interpreting, only the contest finalists were shown, right?

If so, is there a way (next year or sometime in the future) to be able to show all contest entries at some point during the con? They do this at Sakura Con, and it's always something I look forward to.

...is there a way (next year or sometime in the future) to be able to show all contest entries at some point during the con? They do this at Sakura Con, and it's always something I look forward to.

Generally (and this year also) I work in some of the 'almost made it' AMVs into the Pre-show or the Show, and if there are open slots or extra time left over, sometimes an editor will be present and ask 'can you run my entry while we have everyone here, so I can observe an audience reaction?' and I have done that too.The editors can see if the audience reacts to the scenes the way they expected, or how many seconds it takes them to 'get' a scene and react, and then they can sometimes re-tune entries to re-submit them into future contests.

For example if you setup a double-whammy and the audience noise hasn't yet settled down from the first gag, then they won't hear the audio which might be needed to understand the second hit - which becomes a 'dud' because nobody got to hear the set-up for it.

There was one time in which I had scheduled a dedicated block to show runner-up entries, but these are audience-driven events, and it turned out that the audience soon became interested in watching more entertaining works, such as winners and higher-order runner-ups from previous contests, and so we switched the content to follow the crowd.

Recently we threw one of the runner ups onto the screen and it was one of the almost-max duration slow-pokes, all 4min and twenty-something seconds of it, and from what I could tell the audience pretty much sat there until it went away.* (This is what the judges' panel does FOR you - so you don't HAVE to!) So, when I show runner-ups, rather than committing to showing the entire block, I try to steer toward the higher-scoring runner-ups or works with lesser-known anime or unusual styles.

(*if there was a set of distantly-seated, highly-energized viewers in the audience whom I did not detect, then I offer my apologies.)

...is there a way (next year or sometime in the future) to be able to show all contest entries at some point during the con? They do this at Sakura Con, and it's always something I look forward to.

Generally (and this year also) I work in some of the 'almost made it' AMVs into the Pre-show or the Show, and if there are open slots or extra time left over, sometimes an editor will be present and ask 'can you run my entry while we have everyone here, so I can observe an audience reaction?' and I have done that too.The editors can see if the audience reacts to the scenes the way they expected, or how many seconds it takes them to 'get' a scene and react, and then they can sometimes re-tune entries to re-submit them into future contests.

For example if you setup a double-whammy and the audience noise hasn't yet settled down from the first gag, then they won't hear the audio which might be needed to understand the second hit - which becomes a 'dud' because nobody got to hear the set-up for it.

There was one time in which I had scheduled a dedicated block to show runner-up entries, but these are audience-driven events, and it turned out that the audience soon became interested in watching more entertaining works, such as winners and higher-order runner-ups from previous contests, and so we switched the content to follow the crowd.

Recently we threw one of the runner ups onto the screen and it was one of the almost-max duration slow-pokes, all 4min and twenty-something seconds of it, and from what I could tell the audience pretty much sat there until it went away.* (This is what the judges' panel does FOR you - so you don't HAVE to!) So, when I show runner-ups, rather than committing to showing the entire block, I try to steer toward the higher-scoring runner-ups or works with lesser-known anime or unusual styles.

(*if there was a set of distantly-seated, highly-energized viewers in the audience whom I did not detect, then I offer my apologies.)

I totally get that ,at Sakura Con there are videos that I dun wanna sit thru when all entries are shown. I guess it's just my own personal preference to see what everyone submitted.